NBA: Jimmy Butler, Heat take 2-0 lead vs Celtics

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Jimmy Butler’s 35 points and a scorching third quarter propelled the eighth-seeded Miami Heat to a 123-116 victory over the Celtics on Wednesday in game one of the NBA Eastern Conference finals in Boston. CDNDigital

“We are just playing really good basketball,” Butler said. “More than anything, we are staying together through the good and through the bad.

But it was a back-and-forth battle, neither team leading by more than four points in a first quarter that featured 13 lead changes and ended with the Celtics up 30-28. However, the Heat responded with a vengeance in the third and led by 12 going into the final frame. Bedeviled by 11 first-half turnovers, the Heat had just one in the third period as they dominated every facet.

Miami made 16 of 31 three-point attempts while the Celtics made just 10 of their 29 from beyond the arc.Jaylen Brown, who scored 22 points for Boston, got a scare early in the fourth when a loose-ball scramble saw multiple players hit the court and he came up grimacing and holding his left forearm.

 

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